Vista Upgrade Caution

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Chris H

I usually never do an upgrade with a beta but since I have had such poor
luck getting a VPN client to work I thought I would try an upgrade. I didnt
bother backing up my profile resident data (favorites, my docs, etc) as I
have my profile (documents and settings) on the d:\ and the OS is installed
on the C:\
I upgraded to Vista and it performed as poorly as I thought it would (Dell
latitude D610). I re-ghosted down my C:\ volume and figured I would be right
back where I started. Oh-no, not at all!
What *seems* to have happened is that during the upgrade, Vista MOVED, NOT
COPIED everything from my profile to its new profile location on C:\Users.
When I re-imaged my C:\ of course I blew all that away. Ugh .... I am now
working through a bunch of undelete programs. What's everyones favorite?

Chris
 
I thought that it copies your profile (contents of c:\documents and settings)
to an temp directory then copies it to c:\users. I say thought because I'm
running a fresh install after trying to upgrade and ran into permission
problems and can't check but I think i remember seeing my profiles in another
location other than c:\users when I was trouble shooting.
 
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